Climbing Quotes - Page 2

• Why go to a church to worship God? A church is man made. God never said, "And let there be aluminum siding." Climbing a tree to talk to God sounds like a better idea since only God can make a tree. And if that tree's on a golf course, all the better.

  Tim Allen

  Funny, God, Humorous

  Tim Allen (1996). “I'm Not Really Here”, Hyperion

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• The climbing as a whole is not very esthetic or enjoyable; it is merely difficult.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Difficult, Enjoyable, Whole

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• Our ascent, of course, does not end the possibility for new accomplishments on El Capitan. The day will probably come when this climb will be done in five days, perhaps less; and a younger generation will make a new route on the west face.

  Royal Robbins

  Accomplishment, Doe, Generations

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• The future of Yosemite climbing lies not in Yosemite, but in using the new techniques in the great granite ranges of the world.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Lying, Technique, Yosemite

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• Alcohol, firearms and a 4 wheel drive can go a long ways towards making a rain day into a fun rest day.

  Frank Stock

  Funny, Rain, Long

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• Some mountaineers are proud of having done all their climbs without bivouac. How much they have missed ! And the same applies to those who enjoy only rock climbing, or only the ice climbs, onyl the ridges or faces. We should refuse none of the thousands and one joys that the mountains offer us at every turn. We should brush nothing aside, set no restrictions. We should experience hunger and thirst, be able to go fast, but also to go slowly and to contemplate.

  Gaston Rebuffat

  Journey, Hiking, Rocks

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• I became so desperate that I considered throwing Eric [Beck] off the ledge. I thought I could get down and then lie about what had happened. To my addled brain, this was plausible. Then I came to my senses and woke Eric up and told him that either he had to retreat or I'd throw him off. We went down and I never climbed again for a quarter of a century.

  Dave Cook

  Lying, Brain, Eric

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• The reason it was so scary was that there was only one climber capable of rescuing us, and that was Layton Kor, and he was in Colorado.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Scary, Colorado, Reason

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• Actually, we're just glorified flagpole sitters.

  Warren G. Harding

  Flagpoles

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• Personally, I would rather climb in the high mountains. I have always abhorred the tremendous heat, the dirt-filled cracks, the ant-covered foul-smelling trees and bushes which cover the cliffs, the filth and noise of Camp 4 (the climbers' campground), and worst of all, the multitudes of tourists which abound during the weekends and summer months.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Summer, Weekend, Tree

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• Routes rate me, not the other way around.

  Andy Cairns

  Way, Rate, Routes

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• At either end of the social spectrum there lies a leisure class.

  Eric Jay Beck

  Lying, Class, Leisure

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• My next climb is going to be a tourist troll in a wheelchair.

  Allen Steck

  Tourists, Next, Troll

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• Er, I say, are you going to be able to get me out?

  Eric Shipton

  Able, Mountaineering, Rock Climbing

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• Each climber loses one finger or toe once in a while. This is a small but important reason for Polish climbers success. Western climbers haven't lost as many fingers or toes.

  Wanda Rutkiewicz

  Important, Toes, Reason

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• Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Heart, Climbing Up

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• Going to the mountains is going home.

  John Muir

  Home, Adventure, Hiking

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.721, Library of America

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• Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

  Doug Larson

  Inspirational, Positive, Running

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• He liked to play chess and do intelligent things, and I was a serious drinker and nonthinker.

  Warren G. Harding

  Intelligent, Play, Chess

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• If there is such a thing as spiritual materialism, it is displayed in the urge to possess the mountains rather than to unravel and accept their mysteries.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Spiritual, Mountain, Mystery

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• Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Nature, Mountain, Earth

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2001). “Tales of the White Mountains”, p.65, Electric Book Company

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• O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!

  John Keats

  Inspirational, Life, Sensations

  Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 22 November 1817, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 185

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• The silence of the mountain is even more beautiful once the birds are quiet.

  Taisen Deshimaru

  Beautiful, Silence, Bird

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• One who can move mountains start with the little stones.

  Confucius

  Moving, Mountain, Stones

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